In many ways, Toussaint is glad 2012 is behind him. During the summer, he was arrested on a DUI charge and was suspended when the Wolverines played Alabama in the season opener. Also, earlier in the year, the player’s mother was badly injured in a car accident, according to the Detroit News.

He ended up rushing for 514 yards and five touchdowns before the injury.

“It was not just the season, but the year,” Toussaint told the paper. “I was kind of like a reality check for me. I was able to see things different. I really think this (injury) sat me down to the point where I wasn’t mobile and allowed me to think about a lot of stuff.”

Toussaint could feel an even greater urgency to return to full-strength now that Michigan has signed one of the premier high school running backs in the nation, Derrick Green.